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Mr President, I would like to thank John Bowis for an excellent report. I only regret that my main committee, the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, did not get its act together to draw up an opinion on this subject. As the committee responsible for Regulation (EC) No 1408/71, we have an interest in it, as do I as Parliament’s rapporteur during the previous term.
I am rather concerned about the tone of some of the comments that I have just been hearing. Let us be clear: patients have the right to move under certain circumstances. It is not a free-for-all, and I do not think Parliament should be giving that impression. Not least because some colleagues who sit in Member State parliaments would be a little upset to see us moving their budgets as a matter of course because we choose to. It is right that we need greater clarity around the rules on this, but I welcome the recognition in this report that healthcare is a service to people in need, it is not an ordinary consumer product. Therefore, it should not be in the services directive. That is not the appropriate place either to deal with questions of reimbursement. We will have a real mess unless we do this properly and in a considered manner, as has been proposed in this report."@en1
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